1970s Fort Worth Texas. I was in Tennison Brothers violin shop trying to decide whether or not to buy a beginner package. I had taken a few strokes and was not impressed as I had never touched a violin before. They handed the fiddle to a customer and said see if you like you can play this. He immediately played a rousing version of Ragtime Annie and I was sold. It was Dale Morris. I found out later I think he was working for Sammy Smith at the time and the rest is history.
....Saw this sweet guy play with Mr. Sun at the Mendocino Concert Series Darol Anger and Grant Gordy, what a show. At 17 years old he played mando like he had 50 years behind him, totally floored half the audience. They did versions of Armstrong's version of the the Nutcracker, holy crap,.......stunning!!!....
I knew that Ridge Roberts could win this thing, and I had judged him first place on his previous entry (when he was judged second)...Ridge is a gifted natural born fiddler...sad that the organizers at Weiser have never once adequately amplified the sound...it's very, very simple...this time they used a pencil mic for just the fiddle and nothing for the guitars, which were not audible on the stream...if anybody tries to help them get it right, they will be bitten in the ass and shooed away ASAP...I've got all of the right stuff to capture the audio at studio quality, but they would most certainly cheapen and sabotage my efforts...THANKS TO LYLE DIXSON, even though his mic was in the back of the auditorium, and there is some "room-boom", it's acceptable and far better than the abomination provided by the organzers...
^th qas / is there. I did have a typo in the description (in the time for 6th) that probaboly prevented it was showing on the timeline, but at 00:25:13 is 6th Jason Andrew. ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ttJJc1eNFrc.html )
Well, to me, Libby Rogers won this. She smiled more, her fiddle sounded better. Rachel and Andrew get kudos for having cleaned the rosin dust off their fiddles!
1. Big Elk 2. Shuckin the Bush from Cecil Johnson 3. Dusty Miller from Gene Goforth 4. Wink the Other Eye from Art Gailbraith 5. All Young from Melvin Wine 6. Uncle Pen cross-tuned
